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   5 \begin{document}
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   9 \epigraph{%
  10         The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
  11 }{%
  12         H.P. (Howard) Lovecraft
  13 }
  14 \epigraph{%
  15         \selectlanguage{russian}Рукописи не горят\\
  16         \selectlanguage{british} (Manuscripts don't burn)
  17 }{%
  18         \selectlanguage{russian}М.А.\ (Mихаил) Булгаков\\
  19         \selectlanguage{british} (M.A.\ (Mikhail) Bulgakov)
  20 }
  21 \epigraph{%
  22         You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
  23         You sit quietly on the top of a hill;
  24         and away the stone goes, starting others;
  25         \ldots
  26 }{%
  27         R.L. (Robert) Stevenson
  28 }
  29 \epigraph{%
  30         I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them\ldots
  31         It's work enough to read them sometimes\ldots
  32         As to the writing, it has its own charms.
  33 }{%
  34         C.J.H. (Charles) Dickens
  35 }
  36 \epigraph{%
  37         als ik dan van al dat schrijven\\
  38         toch wel erg ben afgemat\\
  39         ga ik lekker zitten lezen\\
  40         o, wat heerlijk lijkt mij dat
  41 }{%
  42         H.M. (Dick) Bruna
  43 }
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  46 \end{document}